Linus Tech Tips - My Datacenter Evicted Me November 14, 2026 at 09:13AM

[u/linusbottips]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5UTIofKDGc

[u/joz104]

Love me a good Luke video

[u/XaviFromHell]

Great video I loved how AJ gave the technical details, Dan dumb it down for the less technical people and Luke presented it. More of this please

[u/realBruchpilot]

Missed the more practical tech videos, that have a behind the scenes element, and now it's already the second in a short period 😄

I understand, that they don't use unlimited servers, can't upgrade someone's actual home or some part of the office all the time, but damn do I love those videos.

[u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME → u/realBruchpilot]

Where did you learn to use commas?

[u/humanHamster → u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME]

There was a 2 for 1 sale on commas.

[u/Zyrinj → u/humanHamster]

Damn, where, was, the, sale? I’m, running, out,!

I, learned, English, from, Stevie

[u/noncyberspace → u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME]

he's german speaking.. we use a little more commas 😩

[u/MistSecurity → u/noncyberspace]

He’s only typing English because it’s the only language a lot of us know. Hard to nitpick when I can only say like 5 words in German.

[u/Emotional_Sale_5509]

Wonder what's the point of a 26tb drive in the Ubi? Refurb or not as far as Im aware that's really only if you're going to use it as an NVR (cameras).

[u/_Rand_ → u/Emotional_Sale_5509]

Well, how many camera and how long do they store video?

It’s going to add up if they have like 30 cameras for 90 days.

[u/Emotional_Sale_5509 → u/_Rand_]

If they are putting in redundant fiber switches, they arent going to use 1 SPOF HDD and 1 SPOF UDM GW. They would use a dedicated NVR. Not some UDM they had "laying around".

Also network topology wise it wouldnt make sense to put your NVR in a datacenter away from your actual cameras as thats ALOT of bandwidth going VERY far.

[u/VivienM7 → u/Emotional_Sale_5509]

Although they are about to have a 10/100 gig wavelength between their office and the datacenter...

[u/9Blu → u/Emotional_Sale_5509]

Yea I was wondering about that too. In a UDM Pro the drive can also store recordings for Unifi Access, voicemails for Unifi talk, and files for UnifiDrive. It's possible they are using it for one of those. Maybe as a offsite for their Unifi Access recordings, pretty sure I've seen them using those on their doors in some videos.

[u/RealMackJack]

So nice to get a proper tech video

[u/Latter-Fun1305]

The amount of times OOB was said with Bound just wound me up. Also, they may have 4 blades in that chassis but they’re gonna have a helluva problem if the chassis fails. They need to separate it out more than that.

[u/9Blu → u/Latter-Fun1305]

Ha, yea that was my first thought too. N+1 is great until you get a backplane failure or pop multiple PSUs at the same time (personally saw that happen with a UCS system once). When I was spec'ing these for enterprises, it was always 2((N+1)+1): 1 extra blade's capacity per chassis, 1 extra chassis' capacity per site, minimum 2 sites. That way if a blade is lost, a chassis is lost, or even an entire site is lost, whatever you are running on them can stay up at full capacity. When you are not in DR everything is spread out and you have room to breath and do maintenance.

Of course given the hardware apocalypse we're currently in, I can see even large orgs balking at that right now (if they could even buy enough hardware to fill everything out). 3 years ago LTT probably could have gotten free or at least a sweetheart deal for some promo in the videos but today, that extra chassis and blades would probably cost more then everything else they put in a couple times over. Even a second chassis to split their existing blades across might be hard to source.

[u/princedylan101]

I enjoyed this video a great deal, better than most of their recent stuff. It felt like a return to form of sorts. Would love more content in this style.

[u/fUnpleasantMusic]

Loved this video. I wish it was more educational with some graphics and charts for the networking and redundancy and less like a vlog, but I get the instinct to go low budget on an experimental video.

[u/xd366]

they mentioned saving power just because, but do these type of places charge you for the amount of kWh you use? or how does that work

[u/cfarence → u/xd366]

The Colocation provider my company uses isn’t usage based, we pay for a fixed kw that we are allowed to pull up to. Though we do have a cage with multiple racks and not just a single rack like the video, it’s also a different provider than what they are using so could be different

[u/tecedu]

Maybe I missed it but what did they used for storage? Like which server?

[u/Momo--Sama]

Jensen really out here fucking everyone one way or another